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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1938
Page
10
A newspaper style word puzzle lists across and down clues about a university head and Yale hints. The grid includes entries for both horizontal and vertical terms such as credits sun god aside value falsehood and other varied definitions with references to Yale figures and related words.
The article explains ancient Egyptian ideas about a king’s double becoming a god after death. It describes how the double traveled to the west, faced dangers, and used prayers from the Book of the Dead. At the Hall of Truth Osiris judges the heart against a scale to prove guilt or innocence.
Questions and answers cover circle circumference via diameter times pi, Washington’s first use of administration, Lincoln Highway length about 3 140 miles, Eskimo hut called an igloo, and New York City Jewish population around 1 765 000.
A reader asks how to stop rug corners from curling. The answer suggests tacking triangular pieces of heavy cardboard under each corner to hold the rug flat.
A column offers etiquette guidance on punctual meal arrivals, proper office jewelry, and length of social visits. It advises guests to be prompt, favors wrist watches over costume jewelry in the office, and suggests a Sunday call last 15 to 30 minutes.
A compact English lesson listing common word errors and usage. It emphasizes correct phrasing such as directing letters and distinguishing coma from comma, with note on pronunciation, misspellings, and synonyms. The piece closes with a daily vocabulary aim and a Shakespearean example of impediments.
A series of brain teasers appears asking where to view the British Constitution, who discovered bacteria, what is green gold, whether pennies are a legal payment for a debt, and a puzzle arranging numbers 1 to 9 in a 3x3 grid so each row sums to 157.
A tentative program was mapped and June 22 24 were set for the annual Southern Conference on Education at Chapel Hill with representatives from the three units of the University of North Carolina in attendance Good Teaching was chosen as the general theme The Woman s college will run elementary sessions State College will plan the vocational section and the University will handle secondary education the general sessions will be run by the general committee
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